WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
Marble Falls There’s a lot more that is wrong about the interplay between housing supply and home purchases than the current drumbeating about interest rates. A hugely superficial argument is being advanced by some reporters and economists that the current squeeze in houses available for purchase is due to an entire segment of …
Marble Falls Despite long gone Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s efforts to privatize all social housing or council housing, as public housing is called in the United Kingdom, is still a critical source of housing for tens of thousands. Many of ACORN’s 11,000 members in Great Britian still live in council housing and over …
Sheffield If you’ve ever tried to buy a house, you likely know what dealing with a real estate agent is like, as both friend and foe. You might have been looking on your own, but driving around wasn’t getting the job done, and these days the newspapers don’t even bother running the ads that …